Roundtable: Seeing Through Multiple Lenses

Facilitator: Katrin Dettmer, PhD candidate, German Studies

• Cydney Dupree, Facilitation of Visual Perspective Taking: The Effect of Observing Goal-Directed Actions | Slides

• Douglas Eacho, Stand and Unfold Yourself: Experience, Performance, and Hamlet

• Benjamin Hyman, Translating Salome: The Queer Critical Legacy of Oscar Wilde

• Jungmin Lee, Modes of Exhibition as Mediated Space: Projection Installation as Spectatorial Frame

Roundtable: Engaged Pedagogy

Facilitator: Rick Benjamin, Adjunct Lecturer, Environmental Studies

• Kira Feldman, Kai Morrell, Amina Sheikh, and Kayla Urquidi, Engaged Pedagogy & the Urban Education Semester in NYC

• Jeffrey Bauer, Zunaira Choudhary, Maura Pavalow, Nathaniel Shelley-Reade, and Hana Ward, Teaching & Learning Outside the Classroom in Elementary Programs in Providence | Slides

• Lindsay Priam, Who’s Participating?

Poster Session

• Samura Atallah, Education, Critical Thinking, and Terrorism: The Reproduction of Global Salafi Jihad in Contemporary Egypt

• Jason Beckman, Adventures in Armadilloland: Translating Inuo Taguchi’s Armadillogic

• Eric H. Lee, Child and Adolescent Stress Reactivity as a Function of Body Mass Index

• Sharon V. Makava, Microchip Diagnostics for HIV: Development of Sample Isolation, Nucleic Acid Amplification and Detection Methods

• Jessica Man, Myelin Integrity Predicts Activities of Daily Living in Alzheimer’s Disease

• Arthur Matuszewski, Prisons, Labor and the American Project

• Talisha Ramchal, Analyzing Neurite Outgrowth and Behavior on Schwann Cell Inspired Topographies

• Andrew Seiden, Global Food Trade, The Nutrition Transition, and Health Outcomes in the Pacific: Fat and Energy Import Trends and Body Mass Index in The Independent State of Samoa, 1961-2007

• Katerina Wright, Eyeing Prestige, Eluding Risk: Explaining European Union Security Missions and Operations

Roundtable Presenters

Cydney Dupree

Cydney Dupree is a senior in the Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences department concentrating in psychology. She is an undergraduate research assistant at the Center for Alcoholic and Addiction Studies, where she will remain next year while applying to social psychology graduate programs. She hopes to study self and social identity, with an emphasis on self-esteem and social exclusion.

Sponsor: Bertram Malle

Douglas Eacho

Sponsor: Kym Moore

Benjamin Hyman

Sponsor: Karen Newman

Jungmin Lee

Jungmin Lee is a visual culture theorist/ practitioner, double-concentrating in Modern Culture and Media and French Civilization. ­Trained in film studies and critical theory, she probes and conceives of alternative modes of exhibition within the converging site of arts and moving images, with attention to issues such as “public” and “private,” and of the material and virtual. Her international observations from living and studying in South Korea, France, and the United States have motivated her to value a plurality of cultures and consider the transnational flow and interventions of new media and artistic tendencies. This fall, she will be attending Harvard Graduate School as a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies.

Sponsor: Anthony Cokes

Kira Feldman

Sponsor: Peggy Chang

Kai Morrell

Sponsor: Peggy Chang

Amina Shikh

Sponsor: Peggy Chang

Kayla Urquidi

Sponsor: Peggy Chang

Jeffrey Bauer

Sponsor: Dilania Inoa

Zunaira Choudhary

Zunaira is from New York, double concentrating in Biology and International Relations.

Sponsor: Dilania Inoa

Maura Pavalow

I am concentrating in International Relations, with a focus on Politics, Culture and Identity. I have worked with the Swearer Center and multiple Providence communities since 2007, focusing on programs that empower youth and adults to break the cycle of poverty through community-building and the arts. I have worked with the Swearer Center to incorporate examinations of race, class, and privilege in the context of community service amongst Brown students, Brown staff and Providence residents. This experiential learning has deepened my academic understanding of social inequalities and has given me an opportunity to critically engage my personal role in public service and social justice.

Sponsor: Dilania Inoa

Nathaniel Shelley-Reade

Sponsor: Dilania Inoa

Hana Ward

Sponsor: Dilania Inoa

Lindsay Priam

Sponsor: Gregory Elliott

Poster Presenters

Samura Atallah

Sponsors: Pauline Luong; Geri Augusto

Jason Beckman

Sponsor: Forrest Gander

Eric H. Lee

Sponsor: Laura Stroud

Sharon V. Makava

I am studying chemical engineering. Over the past few semesters, I have been conducting research in the Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Laboratory with Professor Tripathi, as an independent study. My research has focused on the development of a microchip diagnostic for HIV drug resistance that is optimized for use in a resource limited setting. Its been a formative experience to apply the theoretical concepts covered in my coursework towards a real life application that has the potential to positively impact the lives of many around the globe.

Sponsor: Anubhav Tripathi

Jessica Man

Alzheimer’s disease has traditionally been thought of as a gray matter disease. But emerging evidence has shown that changes in white matter structure, particularly the loss of myelin, a fatty white substance that wraps around neurons and helps brain signals run faster, precede changes in gray matter. With this new knowledge, Dr. Sean Deoni, a professor of Engineering at Brown University, has developed a new MRI technique called mcDESPOT. mcDESPOT is not only clinically realistic and tolerable for the elderly—the procedure only takes 15 minutes—but it also specifically measures myelin changes.

My honors thesis uses this new MRI technique to examine the relationship between myelin loss and functional disability in patients with Alzheimer ’s disease. An understanding of this relationship could be useful in predicting which patients are at greatest risk for functional decline. The results showed that there was a significant association between posterior myelin loss in the brain and functional ability, and even myelin loss and cognitive impairment. Knowing risk levels can help preserve independence, lessen caregiver burden, and ease eventual long-term placement into nursing homes. This new MRI technique measuring myelin could be a new biomarker to help identify patients in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Sponsor: Stephen Correia

Arthur Matuszewski

Broadly engaged in the process of independent, interdisciplinary study, I have studied the formation of individual and institutional worldviews, with particular emphasis on the historical development and values of universities and prisons. I have also coordinated the Brown Education Link for the past three years, bringing Brown and Providence faculty into the ACI for collaborative learning experiences and have been active on several university committees. My TIA project focuses on the connections between prisons, labor and the American experiment — tracing a history of prisons as the moral litmus test of American exceptionalism, with labor as the cardinal virtue promising to redefine a new ethic of reformation.

Sponsor: Sheila Bonde

Talisha Ramchal

Sponsor: Diane Hoffman-Kim

Andrew Seiden

I am interested in bridging the spheres of Anthropology, Health Care, Nutrition, and Politics. Coursework at Brown has been integral in shaping these interests. My thesis examines and describes population level body size and dietary trends in Samoa, a small island nation in the South Pacific, and how these trends can be incorporated into a broad view of global trade inequalities and social determinants of health in the developing world.

Sponsor: Stephen McGarvey

Katerina Wright

Sponsor: Ulrich Krotz